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{{Box|Boxtext=<big><b>However, none of the above three procedures totally eliminate pain. A baby boy will still experience some pain despite any of those analgesic procedures. Prevention of pain requires protecting a boy from elective neonatal non-therapeutic circumcision. Only boys who are protected from the medically unnecessary circumcision surgery experience no pain or trauma.</b></big>}} | {{Box|Boxtext=<big><b>However, none of the above three procedures totally eliminate pain. A baby boy will still experience some pain despite any of those analgesic procedures. Prevention of pain requires protecting a boy from elective neonatal non-therapeutic circumcision. Only boys who are protected from the medically unnecessary circumcision surgery experience no pain or trauma.</b></big>}} | ||
Wallerstein (1985) and Van Howe & Cold (1998) have suggested that it would be better to abandon the practice of non-therapeutic infant circumcision because of the pain associated with it.<ref>{{REFjournal | |||
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|first=Edward | |||
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|author-link=Edward Wallerstein | |||
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|title=Is non-religious circumcision necessary? | |||
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|journal=J Am Acad Child Psychiatr | |||
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|date=1985-05 | |||
|volume=24 | |||
|issue=3 | |||
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|pages=364-5 | |||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/gunnar1984/#wallerstein | |||
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|last=Van Howe | |||
|first=Robert S. | |||
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|author-link=Robert S. Van Howe | |||
|last2=Cold | |||
|first2=Christopher | |||
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|etal=no | |||
|title=Local Anesthesia For Infants Undergoing Circumcision | |||
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|journal=JAMA | |||
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|date=1998-04-15 | |||
|volume=299 | |||
|issue=15 | |||
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|pages=1169-71 | |||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/lander/letters.html | |||
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==Attitudes and practices regarding analgesia for newborn circumcision== | ==Attitudes and practices regarding analgesia for newborn circumcision== | ||